Your customer continues to be responsible for the obligation even though the business was sold. If the transaction was handled properly, the purchaser most likely insulated itself from the obligation upon close of the escrow(unless it agreed in writing in its purchase contract to be responsible for the debts of the seller). You may have a remedy (once a judgment is obtained) for collection should the buyer be paying the seller over time. This remedy would require you to issue a third party levy against the buyer to capture any of the funds that might still be due and owing to the seller.
Answered on Feb 06th, 2013 at 7:53 PM